Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Online Student Shop’s Privacy Policy page.

 This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is protected, collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from onlinestudentshop.com (the “Site”).

 

Online Student Shop is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

 

Online Student Shop may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

 

This policy was last updated on 15th January 2020

  

WHAT WE COLLECT

When you visit the Online Student Shop, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Online Student Shop, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers and/or PayPal email address), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information”.

     

    WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

    At the Online Student Shop  we require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

    • Contact you regarding your order.
    • Process and fulfil your order.
    • Internal record keeping.
    • We may use the information to improve our services.
    • To add you to a mailing list if you choose to be added, you can unsubscribe at any time.
    • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided ONLY when you opt in to receive such communications.
    • Monitoring the volume of traffic the website receives and measuring the number of visitors.
    • Security

     

    We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

     

    HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

    We aim to protect your personal information in the following ways:

    • Storing information in secure locations, including information stored electronically
    • Destroying information which is no longer relevant, unless we have a legitimate reason or statutory obligation to retain it
    • Minimising, wherever practicable, the number of staff or third parties who have access to your information.

     

    HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

    Wherever practicable, we will retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary; however, there are circumstances in which we will keep your information for longer, including;

    • where we have a statutory or regulatory obligation to retain the information (we are required to keep certain information for specified minimum periods, and in some cases indefinitely, depending on the services we provide)
    • to ensure our business is properly run in an efficient and compliant manner.

    WHO ELSE HAS ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

    In order to provide you with the services that you have requested from us, there are a number of third parties who may also need to process your personal information:

    We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

     

    We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

    Behavioural advertising
    As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

    You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
    - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
    - Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
    - Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

     

     

    ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

    You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

    • to make a request to see the personal information we hold about you
    • to change/update the personal information we hold about you
    • to ask us to erase the personal information we hold about you, unless there is a statutory, regulatory or otherwise legitimate reason for us not to comply (we will always provide you with more details about your rights in our response to your request)
    • to ask us to provide you or a third party with the personal information we hold about you.

     

    If you wish to exercise any of your rights regarding your personal information we hold about you, please contact us and we will be in touch as soon as possible to assist with your request.

     

     

    IP ADDRESSES AND SERVER LOGS

    This website records IP addresses and produces server logs. This information is used solely for monitoring the volume of traffic the site receives and measuring the number of visitors. We do not use the information for tracking the activities of individual visitors to this site.

    HOW WE USE COOKIES

    A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

    We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

    Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

    You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

    Google Analytics cookies 
    These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visit. Click here for further information.

     

    LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

    Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

    YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

    We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

    You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee may be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact Online Student Shop

     

    If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

    QUERIES OR CONCERNS

    If you are concerned about how we have treated your information, please contact us on our website and we will assist you to make things right. Alternatively, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, who can be contacted via their website https://ico.org.uk.

     

    THIS POLICY MAY BE UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME

    Online Student Shop reserves the right to change this Policy at any time, and any amended policy is effective upon posting to this Website. 

     

    Online Student Shop will make every effort to communicate any significant changes to you via email. Your continued use of our services will be deemed acceptance of any amended policy.

     

    CONTACTING US

    For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at info@onlinestudentshop.com or contact us.